Cicada Press is a New York City based publishing imprint founded in 2013 by Matthew Whitley and Anastasiya Osipova. Cicada is an artists run press, dedicated to poetic texts, art projects and works of non-fiction by artists and writers situated in the radical left. The poetry of the slogan. The lyricism of the banner.

The Gallows Are Busy

"From a Fathom of rope my neck Will learn the weight of my Ass" - Villon

The Gallows Are Busy is a group publication, attempting to follow and describe the trajectory of a glazed and nervous eye, which takes in the textures of things, and all the associations that they give birth to, but fails to understand their function. It gathers several accounts of such suspended, disassociative perception without celebrating, but also without condemning them. Rather, its intention is to consider the broad spectrum of “checking out”: its poetry, its stupidity, its cunning, its rebellion.